2011年12月英语四级模拟试卷及答案分析(3)_第2页

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　　Neither Ghostrider nor It Came From the Garage made the final cut this week's qualifying races.
　　However, another crowd-pleaser, Cajunbot—or the Ragin' Cajun—a converted all-terrain vehicle developed by a team from the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, did.
　　The smart money in Saturday's race may be on Stanley, a converted Volkswagen Touareg made by a team at California's Stanford University. It was the only vehicle that didn't hit an obstacle in the trial runs.
　　Even if none of the vehicles finishes the race this year, DARPA's Kurjanowicz said, the event has succeeded in galvanizing robotics developers and pushing the creation of new technologies.
　　"The beauty of the Grand Challenge is that it doesn't tell people how to solve the problem," he said. "The community has come up with its own elegant solutions."
　　1. The passage mainly describes the advantages and disadvantages of robot car races.
　　2. Last year's robot race in Nevada was a great success.
　　3. It is a surprise that up to 43 teams came for this year's race called the Grand Challenge.
　　4. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) is sponsoring the race.
　　5. The aim of the Grand Challenge is to spur development of autonomous ground vehicles.
　　6. Ghostrider and It Came From the Garage both made the final cut at this week's qualifying races.
　　7. TerraMax will finish the race and win the grand prize of two million U.S. dollars.
　　8. The obstacles on the Fontana qualification course are made to resemble the ________________.
　　9. The only motorcycle robot in the qualifications is ________________.
　　10. The only vehicle that didn't hit an obstacle in the trial runs is ________________.